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Benefits cap of £500-a-week begins
The new benefits cap, meaning couples and lone parents can receive no more than £500 a week from the state, is rolled out from Monday. But David Cameron’s Twitter endorsement of the cap backfires.
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FactCheck Q&A: how will the new benefits cap work?
Do we really need another benefits cap? How will it work – and is it right to exclude pensioners?
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Universal credit launched in benefits shake-up
The government faces protests as it launches the controversial new universal credit benefit system as part of major changes to welfare.
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Immigrants’ benefits: a complicated system explained
From 2014, Bulgarians and Romanians coming here will be subject to the same rules as other European nationals. Alison Harvey explains the complicated benefits system for people entering the UK.
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FactCheck: the benefit cap row
Iain Duncan Smith has been rapped by the statistics watchdog before. Critics now say he is misrepresenting government figures to defend the controversial cap on benefits. FactCheck investigates.
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Benefits cap begins in London
A cap on the amount of benefits people can receive on a weekly basis begins in London today amid a row over whether it will change behaviour.
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Cameron says benefit reforms put ‘fairness back’
David Cameron claims government changes to benefits are “restoring the fairness” in Britain, while Labour wants to “strengthen the old principle of contribution”, calling Tory changes “hopeless”.
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Osborne hits back at critics of benefits reform
George Osborne launches a vehement defence of the coalition’s benefits shake-up, insisting Britain can no longer afford to reward people who do the “wrong thing”.
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Benefits shake-up kicks in
As a raft of benefit changes finally come into play today, MPs brush off criticism from churches and charities to insist the new system will be “fairer”.
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Welfare reforms won’t cut Britain’s benefit bill
Iain Duncan Smith admits that controversial welfare reforms due to come in next week will not be enough to cut Britain’s benefit bill
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Disabled people ‘hit by multiple benefit cuts’
Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will be worse off as a result of six different benefit cuts, according to Scope.
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Cameron unveils immigrant benefits crackdown
David Cameron outlines how he will end Britain’s “something for nothing” immigration culture, with curbs on unemployment and housing benefits and access to the NHS.
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Welfare benefit restrictions would apply to British citizens
Restrictions on health and welfare benefits for immigrants from European Union states would have to apply equally to UK citizens under EU law, says Downing Street.
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2013: How will my benefits change?
As the coalition government wrestles with an £83bn round of spending cuts to get the UK economy back on track, Channel 4 News looks at cuts to benefits coming into force this year.
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Autumn statement: George Osborne reveals benefits cut
George Osborne unveils a real-terms cut in working age benefits in his autumn statement in a bid to boost the UK’s struggling economy.
